In the mid-1980s a movement towards privatization and de-regulation of the telecommunications sector was begun. The sector has been privatized in most countries and subjected to regulatory reform. The major reform occurred in the late 1990s. Since then the internet and cellular-mobile industries...

Free!! Google and Facebook!!! We all know them, what to worry about? Everything! The giants of the internet are expanding into every corner of the economy, politics and our lives. They control the majority of digital advertising; Alphabet, Google's parent, and Facebook receive more than 60...

Chapter 1. Civilizations -- Part I. Applied Econometrics -- Chapter 2. A Different Approach to Deriving Price and Income Elasticities: Applications to Telecommunications -- Chapter 3. A Cross-Country Analysis of ICT: Diffusion & Global Competitiveness -- Chapter 4. Adoption of E-Commerce by...

Free!! Google and Facebook!!! We all know them, what to worry about? Everything! The giants of the internet are expanding into every corner of the economy, politics and our lives. They control the majority of digital advertising; Alphabet, Google's parent, and Facebook receive more than 60...

This study explores the causal relationships between information and communications technology (ICT) and economic growth. It spans the post-Great Recession period of 2008-2017, which is both a period of economic tumult and slow recovery but also significant pathbreaking developments in ICT...

Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...